Cover: Naomi Frears

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Andrew Bacevich
• John Barrell
• Eleanor Birne
• Colin Burrow
• Meehan Crist
• Sheila Fitzpatrick
• Anthony Grafton
• Owen Hatherley
• Rosemary Hill
• Michael Hofmann
• Charles Hope
• August Kleinzahler
• Jamie Martin
• Thomas Penn
• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
• Theo Tait
• Bee Wilson

Contents

• Sheila Fitzpatrick

  • The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine

• Letters
  Malcolm Deas, Alan Johnson, Anne Murray, Jacob Ecclestone, John Charlesworth, Anne Lonsdale, Will Bowers, Luke Butterly

• Bee Wilson

  • Gef! The Strange Tale of an Extra Special Talking Mongoose by Christopher Josiffe

• Owen Hatherley

  • Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs by Robert Kanigel
  • Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs edited by Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring

• Charles Hope
  At the Ashmolean: Raphael’s Drawings

• Colin Burrow
  On Les Murray

• Thomas Penn

  • Henry VII’s New Men and the Making of Tudor England by Steven Gunn

• Andrew Bacevich

  • The General v. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War by H.W. Brands

• Michael Hofmann
  Two Poems

• John Barrell
  ‘The Meeting of the Waters’

• Rosemary Hill
  Short Cuts: What Writers Wear

• Eleanor Birne

  • The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

• Anthony Grafton

  • Baroque Antiquity: Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe by Victor Plahte Tschudi

• Meehan Crist

  • The Voynich Manuscript edited by Raymond Clemens

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘She’

• Jamie Martin

  • The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World by Michael Lewis

• Theo Tait

  • White Tears by Hari Kunzru

• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
  Diary: Santería